Last year, HP announced The Machine — a cutting-edge system that would combine multiple high-end architectures and capabilities in an enormous quantum leap for computing capability. That vision has been streamlined to the point of nonexistence, thanks to problems commercializing memristor design.

IBM has announced a breakthrough in silicon photonics technology — a 100Gb/s fully integrated set of optical components that could be used to link multiple components in a server. Bit by bit, silicon photonics is becoming a reality.

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